| Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital | |
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| NHS Lothian | |
 Former Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital | |
  Shown in Edinburgh | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Coordinates | 55°57′17″N3°9′56″W / 55.95472°N 3.16556°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS Scotland |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| History | |
| Opened | 1925 |
| Closed | 1988 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
The Elsie Inglis Memorial Maternity Hospital was a maternity hospital in Holyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland. [1] [2]
The hospital was established with surplus funds arising from disbandment of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service, an organisation which had been formed by Elsie Inglis and which had sent hospital units to France, Serbia, Russia, Corsica and Greece during the First World War. [3] The 20-bed hospital opened in July 1925. [3] [4] The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and was directly managed by the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. [3] After services transferred to the Eastern General Hospital, despite public protests about the proposed closure, the facility closed in 1988. [3] Following assurances that another maternity unit in the city would be named after Inglis, one journalist suggested renaming the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People after her. [5]
The original maternity facility subsequently re-opened as a private nursing home and nursery, [5] but following an investigation into the death of a 59-year-old woman, it closed again in 2011. [6] The building was converted and the site is now occupied by residential properties. [7]
Eliza Maud "Elsie" Inglis was a Scottish medical doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals. She was the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle.
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Dame Sarah Elizabeth Siddons Mair was a Scottish campaigner for women's education and women's suffrage. She was active in the Edinburgh Association for the University Education of Women and the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society, which she founded before she was 20.
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Jessie MacLaren MacGregor was one of the first women to be awarded an MD from the University of Edinburgh in 1899. Along with Elsie Inglis she was instrumental in setting up the Muir Hall of Residence for Women Students in Edinburgh, and the Hospice, a nursing home and maternity hospital for poor women.
Alexandra Mary Chalmers Watson CBE,, known as Mona Chalmers Watson, was a British physician and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The first woman to receive an MD from the University of Edinburgh, she helped found the Elsie Inglis Hospital for Women, was the first president of the Edinburgh Women's Citizen Association, a staff physician and later senior physician at the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children, and co-edited the Encyclopaedia Medica with her husband, Douglas Chalmers Watson. At the time of her death in 1936, she was president of the Medical Women's Federation, having been elected May 1935.
The Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont was a medical hospital during World War I active from January 1915 to March 1919 operated by Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH), under the direction of the French Red Cross and located at Royaumont Abbey. The Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey, located near Asnières-sur-Oise in Val-d'Oise, approximately 30 km north of Paris, France. The hospital was started by Dr Frances Ivens and founder of SWH, Dr Elsie Maud Inglis. It was especially noted for its performance treating soldiers involved in the Battle of the Somme.
Margaret (Madge) Neill Fraser usually known as Madge, was a Scottish First World War nurse and notable amateur golfer. She represented Scotland at international level every year from 1905 to 1914.
Ethel Mary Moir, a nursing orderly who served with the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service on the Eastern Front during World War I. Moir recorded her experiences serving with the Elsie Inglis Unit in Russia and Serbia in two volumes of diaries.
Sybil Lonie Lewis, OSS was an early Scottish female surgeon who served with distinction in Serbia during the First World War. In 1917 she helped to establish the Serbian Relief Fund.
Katherine Mary Harley was a suffragist. In 1913 she proposed and organised the Great Pilgrimage on behalf of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. During the First World War she helped to found and organise the Women's Emergency Corps.
Elizabeth Bertram (1874-1954) was a nursing sister with the Scottish Women's Hospital for Foreign Service in Serbia and Corsica.
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